U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on all countries on Wednesday to accept nearly half a million Syrian refugees for resettlement over the next three years. Ban, kicking off a ministerial conference hosted by the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR in Geneva, said: "This demands an...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  A new fire broke out in a Syrian refugee camp on the Turkish border, killing three children and wounding seven, Turkish media and activists said on Tuesday. The fire in Derik camp near Turkish Mardin city was the second in four days. About 7,000 Syrian refugees who...

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was seeking to re-settle more than 450,000 Syrian refugees, some one-tenth of those now in neighboring countries, by the end of 2018, but conceded that it was battling widespread fear and politicization of the issue. A ministerial-level...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said he is planning a new law that will require refugees to learn German and integrate into society, or else lose their permanent right of residence. The initiative comes after voters punished Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives...